EFFECTIVE TEACHING FOR INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (METILOST) -- EFFECTIVE TEACHING FOR INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (METILOST) -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY WE HAVE WRITTEN THIS BOOK -- BASIC STARTING POINTS -- THE AIMS OF THIS BOOK -- THE IMPORTANCE OF A MODEL OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION -- THE STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK -- THE PROBLEM OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING -- RESEARCH FOCUS -- DEPARTING POINTS: GENERIC FEATURES, CONSTRUCTIVISM AND INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES -- GENERIC FEATURES -- Constructivism -- Intended Learning Outcomes -- PROBLEM AND QUESTIONS -- THE FUNDAMENTAL AND PERMANENT ENTITIES: TASKS AND MEDIATION -- FOUR DIFFERENT STORIES, THE SAME CONCERN -- Story 1: School in Angola -- Story 2: Parental Education -- Story 3: Extract from Page 78 and 103 of Wagensberg (2004) -- Story 4: Airplane Pilot Training -- TASKS AND TEACHER MEDIATION ARE PRESENT IN ANY FORMATIVE SITUATION -- TASK -- TEACHER MEDIATION -- CASE STUDIES: TOOLS AND RESULTS -- TOOLS TO PLAN TEACHING OF ST -- "Conceptual Field Network" Tool -- "PERT Diagram of Formative Situations" -- TOOLS TO SPECIFY THE TEACHING ACTIONS -- TOOLS TO MANAGE THE TEACHING OF ST -- Case Reported in [6-10]: Teaching Introductory Physics Course in an Engineering School. -- Case Reported in [19-23]: Teaching Optics in Grade 8 (Students with 14 Years Old) -- A SYNTHESIS ABOUT TOOLS AND RESULTS OBTAINED IN THE CASE STUDIES -- OVERVIEW AND PURPOSE OF A MODEL OF FORMATIVE SITUATION TO TEACH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MFS-TST) -- SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES -- MFS-TST -- ARTICULATION BETWEEN TASKS AND TEACHER MEDIATION -- A NEW APPROACH OF TEACHER MEDIATION -- A - Philosophical Perspective -- B - Psycho-Sociological Perspective -- HOW CAN WE USE THE MODEL OF FORMATIVE SITUATION TO TEACH ST (MFS-TST)?.

MFS-TST and the Preparation of the Curriculum -- MFS-TST to Manage and to Analyse the Teaching of ST in the Classroom -- POTENTIAL, LIMITATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF MFS-TST -- STUDIES CONDUCTED IN PORTUGAL AND ANGOLA THAT USED THE MFS-TST: OVERVIEW AND RESULTS -- The Main Results Obtained -- BASES FOR A MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING FOR INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES IN ST (METILOST) -- BUILDING METILOST -- TRAINING MODE -- MEDIATION MODE -- EPISTEMIC MODE -- METILOST AS CONSISTENT TOOL TO DESCRIBE, ELUCIDATE AND PREDICT: AN OVERVIEW -- METILOST AS A CONSISTENT TOOL TO DESCRIBE, ELUCIDATE AND PREDICT: TEACHING AND RESEARCH -- TEACHING METHODS -- RESEARCH ABOUT CLASSROOM TEACHING - THE CASE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION -- GENERALITY, RELEVANCE, POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS OF METILOST -- A SYNOPSIS OF METILOST -- RELEVANCE AND POTENTIAL OF METILOST -- SOME LIMITATIONS OF METILOST -- METILOST CAN GUIDE THE RESEARCH ON ST TEACHING TO NEW POSSIBILITIES -- SOME CONTRIBUTES OF METILOST -- EPILOGUE -- ANNEX I - REFERENCES OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES THAT USED THE MFS-TST -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.